Return to Valetto
On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village that survived centuries of earthquakes and landslides and became a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II, it has since been nearly abandoned, as residents sought better lives elsewhere. Only ten remain, including the widows Sera...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 520 | |a On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village that survived centuries of earthquakes and landslides and became a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II, it has since been nearly abandoned, as residents sought better lives elsewhere. Only ten remain, including the widows Sera<U+FB01>no-three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother-who live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. The unwelcome guest is the captivating and no-nonsense Elisa Tomassi, who asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Sera<U+FB01>no, a resistance <U+FB01>ghter whom her own family harbored, gave the cottage to them in gratitude. But like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret-a betrayal, a disappearance, and an unspeakable act of violence-that has affected Valetto across generations. Who will answer for the crimes of the past? | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Historians |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Villages |z Italy |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Family secrets |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Underground movements |z Italy |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Domestic fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
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